Beltran vs. Cangayda, JR PDF
Beltran vs. Cangayda, JR PDF
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* SECOND DIVISION.
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CAGUIOA, J.:
The Case
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The Facts
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x x x;
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4 Rollo, p. 26.
5 The amount of the initial payment and the date on which it was paid
cannot be ascertained from the records.
6 Rollo, p. 17.
7 Id. Stated as P29,960.00 in the CAÊs Decision.
8 Id.
9 Id.
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RTCÊs Proceedings
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alleged that
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10 Id., at p. 26.
11 Id., at p. 18.
12 Id., at pp. 18, 55.
13 Id., at p. 52.
14 Id., at p. 18.
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15 Id., at p. 5.
16 Id., at p. 18.
17 As quoted in the CAÊs Decision, id., at p. 19.
18 Id., at p. 5.
19 As narrated in the CAÊs Decision, id., at p. 20.
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20 Id., at p. 5.
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CAÊs Proceedings
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21 Id., at p. 20.
22 AN ACT TO PROVIDE PROTECTION TO BUYERS OF REAL ESTATE ON
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law for the first time on appeal would violate the tenets of
due process and fair play.26
Petitioners filed a Motion for Reconsideration which was
later denied through the assailed Resolution.
Thus, the present Petition now prays that the Court: (i)
reverses the judgment of the CA and RTC; and (ii) directs
respondents to allow them to settle their remaining balance
of P5,310.00 and, subsequently, convey the disputed
property in their favor.
Petitioners maintain, as they did before the CA, that the
oral agreement they entered into with respondents is a
contract of sale, and that, as a necessary incident of such
contract, ownership over the disputed property had been
transferred in their favor when they took possession and
built improvements thereon.27
Further, petitioners argue that respondents are not
entitled to recover possession of the disputed property since
they failed to cancel their oral agreement by way of a
notarial act, in accordance with the provisions of
the Maceda Law.28
Finally, petitioners aver that respondentsÊ Complaint is
an action upon a written agreement, as it is based on the
Amicable Settlement. Thus, petitioners conclude that
respondentsÊ action already prescribed, since it was filed
more than 10 years after the lapse of petitionersÊ period to
pay their outstanding balance. Petitioners further argue
that the Complaint is also barred by laches, considering
that respondents allowed petitioners to continue staying in
the disputed property for a period of 17 years after such
failure to pay.29
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The Issues
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the bare insistence that what the parties entered into verbally was a contract
of sale.30 (Emphasis supplied)
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persons who have acquired the thing, in accordance with Articles 1385
and 1388 and the Mortgage Law.
40 Supra note 34 at p. 651; p. 324.
41 See generally Velarde v. Court of Appeals, 413 Phil. 360, 373; 361
SCRA 56, 68 (2001).
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46 Rollo, p. 5.
47 Id.
48 Article 1144 provides:
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The following actions must be brought within ten years from the time
the right of action accrues:
(1) Upon a written contract;
(2) Upon an obligation created by law;
(3) Upon a judgment.
49 716 Phil. 267; 703 SCRA 439 (2013).
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** Designated Senior Associate Justice per Section 12, R.A. No. 296,
The Judiciary Act of 1948, as amended.
*** Designated additional member per Special Order No. 2587 dated
August 28, 2018.
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